element-hq / element-hq/element-web

The Help menu should have an About entry

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A-Electron A-User-Menu T-Defect T-Feature
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Description

### Description

An "About" dialog with version information should be accessible through Help | About on the menu

### Steps to reproduce

1. Enable the menus.
2. Open the Help menu
3. ... where's "About"?

### Version information

Desktop.

For the desktop app:

- **OS**: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (Beowulf)
- **Version**: 1.7.1

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Research direction

Start by tracing the desktop app's Help menu entry point and run the app with menus enabled. Done means Help contains an About entry that opens a dialog showing version information.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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